OpenGL VAO best practices

Question

Im facing an issue which I believe to be VAO-dependant, but Im not sure..

I am not sure about the correct usage of a VAO, what I used to do during GL initialization

Answer 1

Robert's answer above worked for me when I tried it. For what it's worth here is the code, in Go, of using multiple Vertex Attribute Objects:

// VAO 1

vao1 := gl.GenVertexArray()
vao1.Bind()

vbo1 := gl.GenBuffer()
vbo1.Bind(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER)

verticies1 := []float32{0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0}
gl.BufferData(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, len(verticies1)*4, verticies1, gl.STATIC_DRAW)

pa1 := program.GetAttribLocation("position")
pa1.AttribPointer(3, gl.FLOAT, false, 0, nil)
pa1.EnableArray()
defer pa1.DisableArray()

vao1.Unbind()

// VAO 2

vao2 := gl.GenVertexArray()
vao2.Bind()

vbo2 := gl.GenBuffer()
vbo2.Bind(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER)

verticies2 := []float32{-1, -1, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}
gl.BufferData(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, len(verticies2)*4, verticies2, gl.STATIC_DRAW)

pa2 := program.GetAttribLocation("position")
pa2.AttribPointer(3, gl.FLOAT, false, 0, nil)
pa2.EnableArray()
defer pa2.DisableArray()

vao2.Unbind()

Then in your main loop you can use them as such:

for !window.ShouldClose() {
    gl.Clear(gl.COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | gl.DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT)

    vao1.Bind()
    gl.DrawArrays(gl.TRIANGLES, 0, 3)
    vao1.Unbind()

    vao2.Bind()
    gl.DrawArrays(gl.TRIANGLES, 0, 3)
    vao2.Unbind()

    window.SwapBuffers()
    glfw.PollEvents()

    if window.GetKey(glfw.KeyEscape) == glfw.Press {
        window.SetShouldClose(true)
    }
}

If you want to see the full source, it is available as a Gist and derived from the examples in go-gl:

https://gist.github.com/mdmarek/0f73890ae2547cdba3a7

Thanks everyone for the original answers, I had the same question as ECrownofFire.